Rich and Strange: Gender, History, ModernismPrinceton University Press, 1991/10/27 - 248 ページ Like the products of the "sea-change" described in Ariel's song in The Tempest, modernist writing is "rich and strange." Its greatness lies in its density and its dislocations, which have until now been viewed as a repudiation of and an alternative to the cultural implications of turn-of-the-century political radicalism. Marianne DeKoven argues powerfully to the contrary, maintaining that modernist form evolved precisely as a means of representing the terrifying appeal of movements such as socialism and feminism. Organized around pairs and groups of female-and male-signed texts, the book reveals the gender-inflected ambivalence of modernist writers. Male modernists, desiring utter change, nevertheless feared the loss of hegemony it might entail, while female modernists feared punishment for desiring such change. With water imagery as a focus throughout, DeKoven provides extensive new readings of canonical modernist texts and of works in the feminist and African-American canons not previously considered modernist. Building on insights of Luce Irigaray, Klaus Theweleit, and Jacques Derrida, she finds in modernism a paradigm of unresolved contradiction that enacts in the realm of form an alternative to patriarchal gender relations. |
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... Women's Literature 8 , no . 1 ( Spring 1989 ) . © 1989 , The University of Tulsa . Reprinted by permission of publisher . A portion of chapter 3 ap- peared in different form in " Half In and Half Out of Doors : Gertrude Stein and ...
... women who could change the world " ( 32-33 ) . More recently , Edward Said , while refraining from so vast a claim ... women writers , focus on resuscitating undervalued work by women modernists.17 Asserting the stature of these works is ...
... women modernists ' unacknowledged contributions to the development of modernism or , elsewhere , on the male modernists ' deliberate suppression of women writers . In The War of the Words , Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar argue that male ...
... women writers were just as important to the birth of modernism as the seminal ink of the modernist founding fathers . James , Yeats , Pound , Eliot , and Joyce are credited not with giving birth to modernism — that metaphor itself would ...
... women writers " invented " modernist form , " discovered " it " in- dependently , " to switch to the also frequently invoked scientific meta- phor , at just the same time that male writers did . Three Lives was composed at the same time ...
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Modernism under Erasure | 19 |
A Different Story The Yellow Wallpaper and The Turn of the Screw | 38 |
CONRAD AND OTHERS | 65 |
Darker and Lower Down The Eruption of Modernism in Melanctha and The Nigger of the Narcissus | 67 |
The Vaginal Passage Heart of Darkness and The Voyage Out | 85 |
The Destructive Element The Awakening and Lord Jim | 139 |